somnivolent
somnivolent adjective: having a desire to sleep.
Adjective
somnivolent (comparative more somnivolent, superlative most somnivolent)
- Having a desire to sleep.
- This portion of the poem, just after the Harrowing of Hell has been portrayed, opens with Will at home, awake from his last vision, dressing and going to Mass. In the midst of the service our somnivolent hero falls into his usual state and dreams his second-to-last vision.1962, Morton Wilfred Bloomfield, Piers Plowman as a fourteenth-century apocalypse, page 128
- […] she impatiently brushed them away, her eyes alight with the joy of living, her cheeks pink, her whole body taking on a sense of direction, a firmness of movement, as if it had been woken out of years of a somnivolent state.1986, Christine Park, Joining the grown-ups, page 124
Forms of somnivolent
| comparative | more somnivolent |
|---|---|
| superlative | most somnivolent |
Origin of somnivolent
Derived from Latin somnus + -i- + volēns; see also volition.
Questions about somnivolent
- What does somnivolent mean?
- Somnivolent means having a desire to sleep.
- What part of speech is somnivolent?
- Somnivolent is an adjective.
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